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Re: Put your mouth where your money is?

by jimt (Chaplain)
on Aug 11, 2006 at 13:28 UTC ( [id://566828]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Put your mouth where your money is?

It's the value add proposition that's the most important thing to consider, and as others have pointed out, what's the value add?

If all you need to do is post a reply, then people will just post and say "ditto" or "me too" or whatever. The site may get more clever and try to automatically weed out some replies, but the posters can just get more clever too. Maybe I can write up a paragraph of boilerplate text that I always drop into place when I reply to get past the auto-filters, or something.

The next phase would be having people police it, but frankly, who wants to do that? Besides, it doesn't help. If I can post a reply and then immediately vote, and then a moderator comes along and deletes my reply for being worthless, then should my vote have counted? I didn't fulfill the criteria.

If I have to wait until my reply is approved before I can vote, then I'll forget about the original node and most likely not return to simply upvote it.

So, it's not probably not adding any value. What is it doing? Well, it's adding in an extra step of the user explicitly saying that he has the power to vote on the node, which removes anonymity. That's annoying. We could make it a separate step where the user has to explicitly click on an "I want to vote" link before being allowed to, but what's the point in that? It's an extra step, and the system knows who was voting anyway, so it adds nothing.

Besides, when it comes right down to it, I don't think the XP system here should be taken too seriously. I mean, it's nice and a novel diversion and I'm pleased with myself as I move through the ranks and all, but it's not like I put my monk level on my resume or anything. A little levity is quite fine.

Note - Now that I think about it, this thread is almost the prime example of why this idea probably won't work. There's a whole string of us that replied to this thread (myself included) and just said, "Bad idea - everyone will say 'me too'" but didn't add on a whole lot of additional value. Talk about your self-fulfilling prophecies. :-)

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